Lexmark x83 drivers for Vista Business

Do you have an "Unknown Device" in Device Manager?

Delete the printer entry in Device Manager - restart without the printer plugged in and then try installing the 5200 driver again.  When the install tries to detect the printer replug the USB.

Vista 32 bit or 64 bit? If 64 bit, you will be out of luck.

Remove  "Lexmark x83 Scan/Print/Copy)" from "Other Devices" first.

Re-boot and try again for auto-detection.

Unzip the 5200 driver file into a folder using WinRAR.

When your Vista asks for a driver, point the search for driver to the folder as mentioned above.

Good luck!

Go to the URL below to download the 5250 driver.

http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=187681

My experience told me using "Windows Server 2003" driver is a better choice than Vista driver.

You may need to go back to previous System Restore Point if X83 driver cannot be removed.

Beside, if your PC work under domain, you need to change the group policy to allow non-certified driver before they can be installed.

The DriverGuide site does allow free registration but you have to negotiate a lot of adverts.
This is the file jackieman linked to: http://www.masqueraid.eu/eestuff/CJB5200EN.exe

I have used to be a member if DriverGuide but I have forgotten the password.

Masqueraid, thanks!

I am trying another link.

http://www.downloaddelivery.com/srfilecache/CJB5200EN.exe

Let me test it first. You can also download but do not run. I will do a virus scan first.

So, you want the printing function only?

Just checked the link I posted & it runs fine - I can also vouch for the hosting server ;)

Scannning will be a stretch - as I posted at the beginning "at least to get printing"

in the printer section, click add printer> local printer>next> select your printer, and click windows update

I am not sure whether it woks or not.

Use WinRAR to extract the fills inside CJB5200EN.exe file.

There will be a sub-folder called "scan" inside.

Connect your X83 to your PC, maybe the driver will be automatically installed or a pop up window will appear. Locate the scan folder and see whether your Vista accepts the inf file.

If automatically installed, go to "Lexmark x83 Scan/Print/Copy" in the Device Manager to replace the driver with the driver inside the "scan" folder.

If this doesn't get any further the latest incarnation of Virtual PC 2007 has USB support so you could still run the scanning in an XP session within Vista using the drivers we know are OK (or even run one box on Windows 7 with its built in XP virtualization). VPC however currently won't support the USB connection "seamlessly" so you'll need to replug the x83 everytime you start a session (seemless - the equivalent of autodetection of what's already connected - USB connection is on the development list)

Can you right-click the inf file inside the scan folder and select install and see whether any new device come up in the device manager?

you can't simply rename those files and get them to work - the .in_ suffix means they've been compressed.

Open a cmd window navigate to the .in_ files and try
expand lxbtscxp.in_ lxbtscxp.inf
& repeat with the other - then try with those files.

did you try what i posted yet ?

>>expand them, and no results,
At least we know they don't work then, it would have been a shame if you'd given up on them and it was the file compression that stopped it working.

Time for VPC?